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EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. Write it 1920. Have you been robbed yet.' If not, why not .' Human life is the cheapest thing in Seattle just now. Had booze got its toll of dead Christmas, but. they would have it. Of course the air is free, but it costs a lot of money 1o warm it up. The question is, have all the presidential hooins taken to the Wood for cover? Despite the fact the editor hereof is past sixty he has no objections to being thoroughly leap yea red. As long as booze is $24 per quart there will be less whiskey drunk, your taste for the same to the contrary notwithstanding. If" it be true that Europe is starving the profiteers of this country doubtless feel that things continue to come their way. Chief Warren is calling for help to curb the criminals. What a pity the old fight ing Twenty-fourth is not stationed at Fort Lawton. Funeral services over the remains of the late John Barleycorn will be held January Bth when the old highwayman will pass out bag and baggage. Quarreling over what might have been will fi'jiin the former rulers of Germany no thing. \o\v is the time for them to practice "nnim is the word." It' some of ns reach the "other world" as full of booze ;is we leave this. Conan Doyle is eorred in saying "there may be alcohol in Ilie next world." hi case the editor of Cayton's Weekly owes you anything for services rendered the p;ist year then here is wishing you a happy new year, it' otherwise to hell with you. President Wilson may be "in wonderful physical condition" just now as say those close to him. but before he is through ex plaining his peace pact to the senate he will probably again be down and out. The editor hereof was some twenty odd years of age before he learned a penny was real money and boys living now seen to have the same lack of knowledge about a nickel. Whoever looks upon the almighty dollar as lord and master is a crook at heart and will not hesitate to commit the most hein ous crime for an opportunity to worship at the shrine of the Almighty Dollar. Taxes in King County have been raised 20 per cent and the down-town landlords have raised their rents 8(5 per cent to pre vent bankruptcy from overtaking them. In the matter of the navy awards the buck has been passed up 1o the president and lie doubtless will in turn pass it up to the southern oligarchy, the real power be hind the throne in his administration. When the census man comes round tell him all you know about yourself and your business. The government needs the in formation and will see to it that it Aviii never be known outside of official circles. It is an old adage that ;i bad beginning makes a good ending and P. Frazier the colored real estate dealer of Seattle, is of the opinion that there is a lot of truth in it and he is speaking from personal ex perience. Thousands of protests are being registered against the hanging of the Arkansas col ored men convicted by ;i jury in seven minutes. The protests may not win in this instance, but there will come a time some day when they will win. •lolni Sharp Williams, the Mississippi sen- atonal roughneck, expresses the hope that he will be a dog if he is a candidate for the senate to succeed himself. From our way of thinking he is already what he wishes to be under certain circumstances. However by that time he may be a mad dog, and for the hope of which let's be thankful. The lynching of a colored man in North Carolina last Saturday night charged with having killed a white man was doubtless a lapsus lingua and instead was an inno cent white woman he had outraged, as the lynching of colored persons is only for the protection of white women as so states John Sharp Williams the Mississippi senatorial roughneck. Viewing the crime wave in Seattle at pres ent through the observation glasses of a colored man we are of the opinion that the law and order class of white folks of this community need to call upon the colored folks, who are always 100 per cent Ameri can, to help them put down the criminal element of white folks, who seem to be run ning riot just now- THE PASSING THRONG. One of the congenial fellows of the city is W. IT. Wilson, who deals in men's cloth ing, and he invited me to drop in and look his place over, which T did, and believe me, its some place, but T found he had two part ners—a Jew and an Irishman—and after looking him over and meeting his partners I said to myself, a Negro, a Jew and an Irishman, while not three of a kind, certainly three to draw to A few days after my first visit T passed the store and to my surprise and perhaps amusement, they had taken an Italian shoe repair man in with them, and T vulgarly said to myself— a Darky, a Dago, a Sheeney and a Mick—can you beat it. # # # "Happy New Year to You," said I to J. B. MacDougal, once upon a time the leading dry goods merchant of the Northwest, and it gave me much pleasure to meet him in the Christmas holiday season, for I have .known him for nearly thirty )pears, and not only knew him. but have done business with him, and our business relations having always been pleasant, he seemed equally pleased to return the greeting. Tie passed by and then as 1 stood talking to the Rev. D. A. Graham T felt a gentle touch on my shoulder and he said, "I just stopped to tell you that at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the firm of MaeDougall & Southwiek Company George Selby was voted a pension of .+26 per week the balance of his life, whether sick or well, work or play, and at his death his funeral expenses will be fully paid by the company- He has worked for the firm as night watchman for fourteen yearas and a more faithful employe never worked for a concern than he and the firm thus shows its appreciation of his faith fulness." Cayton's Weekly has no hesitancy in holding up the life of Mr. Selby to the younger set, both white and black, as worthy of emulation and although you may not ac cumulate a fortune by doing so, yet you will never be in want. # * # Such an epidemic of crime never before in all the history of Seattle has overshadowed the city as lias prevailed for the past thirty days and it continues unabated. While the comment I am about to make on this uerly subject may be the promptings of clanish ness, yet I feel that T am justified in doing so. Amid this scourge of crime, but one colored man lias been implicated and he must have been a novice for he was shot in his attempt to rob a grocery store. Men. women and children have been shot down and robberies by the wholesale have been committed and yet "narry a nigger" has been accused. In view of the fact that Se attle is a seaport town and attracts so many persons of the free and easy life this record the colored citizens have made during this epidemic of crime for law and order is quite praiseworthy. I am of the opinion that the policeman who said to me some time ago that all colored persons are damn criminals, either was mistaken or he and his coworkers have not been able to trap them, or if trap ped, they have criminalized the trapper. ALL ABOUT YOU Alexander P. Camphor, prelate of Liberia, representing the Methodist Episcopal church, is dead. One hundred thousand dollars has been voted for the erection of a public school in Mound Bayon, Miss., an exclusive colored community. A ten thousand dollar ice cream factory is being installed in Los Angeles, Cal., which has been financed by the colored citizens thereof. Many robberies charged to colored men in Casper, Colorado, according to the chief of the police of that city, were committed by two white men and a white woman who had blackened their faces. Jonas Thomas, a farmer and business man of Rennettville, S. C, has already sold 700 bales of cotton this season and has 200 more to market. He is said to be the largest in dividual cotton planter in the state. He is also a heavy stockholder in a local bank. Captaian Smith, of oversea duties, who was tried, convicted and sentenced to be shot by a court martial made up wholly of white officers from the South, has been completely exonerated and restored to duty. Nothing more shameful ever before occurred in army circles- An amendment to the Cummins railroad bill has been introduced by Senator Joseph J. Frances of Maryland, which has for its object the abolition of the Jim Crow car service, which costs the government sixty million dollars annually to maintain a sep arate car system. INDIAN POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES, EXCLUSIVE OF ALASKA, JUNE 30, 1919 Alabama, 909; Arizona, 42,346; rkansas. 460; California, 16,215; Colorado, 821; Con necticult, 152; Delaware, 5; District of Co lumbia, 68; Florida, 573; Georgia, 95; Ida ho, 4,066; Illinois, 188; Indiana, 279; lowa. 358; Kansas, 1,441; Kentucky, 234; Louisi ana, 780; Maine, 892; Maryland, 55; Massa chusetts, 688; Michigan, 7,512; Minnesota. 12,447: Mississippi, 1,253; Missouri, 313: Montana, 12,138; Nebraska. 2,448; Nevada. 5,B4O;NNcrw r Hampshire, 34; Ncav Jersey, 168: New Mexico, 20,581; New oYrk, 6,460; North Carolina, 8,235: North Dakota, 8,891: Ohio. 127: Oklahoma, 119,101; Oregon. 6,607: Rhode Island, 284; South Carolina, 331: South Dakota, p2,829; Tennessee, 216: Texas, 702: Utah, 3,048; Vermont, 26; Vir ginia, 539; Washington, 10,988: West Vir ginia, 36; Wisconsin, 10,211; Wyoming, 1,712; Total, 232,196. Cayton's Weekly READABLE RELIABLE REPUBLICAN Will Help You If You Will Help It 303 22nd Aye. So. Beacon 1910